Category: Figure Skater Peggy Fleming: Getting a Grip on Stress

Olympic figure skating champion Peggy Fleming has teamed up with a company called Health Saver. Below Peggy Fleming and Health Saver offer some practical tips for getting a grip on stress and for getting back on a healty lifestyle track if you have veered off a little.

Peggy Fleming says, “Plan a ’self make-over’ for better […]

Someday - maybe not too far in the future - a machine may grow the new body part you need. That would be a miracle as some “98,000 people are on a waiting list for transplants right now” according to CBS News. CBS says a research team at Wake Forest University believes any body part […]

University of New South Wales Professor Bernard Stewart recently conducted a study on cancer risk factors. According to MSNBC Stewart found that smoking and alcohol are both high risk factors. On the plus side Stewart study downplays the cancer risk from coffee, deodorants, fluoridated water and having breast implants or dental fillings. Stewart also downplays […]

The video from the Wall Street Journal discusses the issue of hidden tramatic brain injuries. Many researchers believe that hidden traumatic brain injuries may be the cause of social or educational failure for many people. Mt. Sinai School of Medicine is behind some important research in this area.

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A helmet that looks like it came from a sci-fi flick may offer real help to Alzheimer’s sufferers. The Daily Mail reports that the helmet bathes the wearer with infra-red light. The helmet only needs to be worn for ten minutes each day.

Dr Dougal claims that only ten minutes under the hat a day […]

This is London reports that U.S. researchers have had surprisingly positive results using an arthritis drug called Enbrel on alzheimer’s patients. The drug is injected into the patients spine. One patient showed improvements within in minutes. Some patients have been able to drive again after receiving the treatements.

The drug, called Enbrel, is injected into the […]

The FDA says clones are ok to eat. The FDA’s food safety chief Dr. Stephen Sundlof said that they “found nothing in the food that could potentially be hazardous. The food in every respect is indistinguishable from food from any other animal.” The Associated Press reports that two companies have alread produced over 600 cloned […]

Norovirus is raging through England. Times Online reports that 2.8 million people have been sick with the norovirus in England and another 200,000 are falling ill each week.

The rate of new cases being confirmed has reached the levels of reports during the massive outbreak five years ago, when officials announced an epidemic.

Norovirus can prove […]

The BBC reports on a new flexible surgical robot cakked the i-Snake. The article says experts believe the i-Snake could revolutionize keyhole surgery.

Minimally invasive surgery has obvious advantages - it can mean smaller scars, reduced hospital stays and shorter recovery times.

Surgeons are also looking at ways to avoid skin incisions altogether.

One approach is Natural Orifice […]

Wired reports that scientists have discovered a brain hormone called orexin A that people could snort to reverse the effects of sleep deprivation. It has worked in monkeys. Sleep-deprived monkeys became alert with no ill effects - as if they had received plenty of sleep - after receiving a nasal spray containing the hormone.

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